ReBuilders Source, the Bronx's 2-year old worker-owned, materials re-use cooperative, has closed for financial reasons.  At the 2010 USFWC conference organizer Omar Freilla noted that the cooperative's business plan was ill-timed; the store opened to sell building materials in 2008 just as the recession was devastating the construction industry. Green Worker Cooperatives, the organization that developed and supported ReBuilders Source, has reinvigorated their Co-op Academy and has 6 new cooperatives in development:

As a result of the new format for our Co-op Academy, in 2009 we graduated six new co-ops in development that cover a wide range of industries: two healthy green caterers (Sabor Latino & B-Blossom); a green diner (The Worker’s Diner); a solar thermal products manufacturer (Aquatecture); a furniture renovator & re-designer (ReFab); and a green community youth center owned and governed by both workers and the young people served.